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Title: Spy Chase | |
| Composer: Brant Karrick | ||
| Year Composed: 2004 | ||
| SPY CHASE intends to evoke images of one’s favorite secret agent who is about to embark upon a mission placed deep in the field of crime, espionage, and corruption. And of course our hero will always have time for a little romance. The music will sound a little reminiscent by using familiar “spy chords,” a minor triad with added 6th or raised 7th, and the trademark chromaticism associated with the composer’s favorite secret agent, James Bond.
The piece is structured in an ABA form with two main thematic ideas. Following a brief introduction the primary theme is fast and exciting, in a minor key, and at times borrows notes from a blues scale. The theme is first stated by the trumpets then following a short transition, is passed to the woodwinds with the trumpets playing the theme in canon. A percussion interlude sets up the sultry second theme with a bossa nova feel. This section is followed by a return of the principal theme and a somewhat unique coda. Spy Chase was commissioned by the Muhlenberg North Middle School Bands, Greenville, Kentucky, Troy Stovall, Director. |
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